TIM RICHARDSON -> ED HULETT wrote:

 RS>>>> BTW, if you think the Army could use a 54 year old chopper pilot,
 RS>>>> don't you think the Air Force could also use a 48 year old A-10
 RS>>>> weapons mechanic?


 RS>>> I never said I was a full-scale weapons mechanic, liar.


 TR> Actually...he did. He stated that he had been a `weapons systems mechanic'.

Yes, he did.

 TR> Not: `a weapons systems mechanic *in-training*'; or; `training to be a
 TR> weapons systems mechanic'...


 TR> When I asked him what he had done in the Air Force, he stated that he `had
 TR> been a weapons systems mechanic'.

That's because he wanted to impress you.

 RS>>> I'd like to see you load an A-10's ammunition store for the front
 RS>>> gun, MANUALLY, like we had to do once. More than 1100 rounds of
 RS>>> milk-bottle sized 30mm rounds. There always was a chance that the
 RS>>> power-operated loader couldn't get the power it needed.
 RS>>> I swear, between the 4 or 5 of us, we turned that damn crank
 RS>>> thousands of times.


 TR> Now, lets see........65 days actual `time in' the Air Force.

Yeah... 65 days in and he expects us to believe he was allowed to load an
A-10 main gun.

 TR> Forty two days for basic training (that leaves twenty three days).


 TR> Time for treatment and healing time for a broken ankle (lets give it two to
 TR> three weeks.....thats fourteen to twenty one days).


 TR> And then there's the time for playing cribbage with a lonely, bored Brigadier
 TR> General, while processing out of the Air Force (give it two days, tops)


 RS>>> The most advanced weapon I did work on was the then-current version
 RS>>> of the Sidewinder.


 TR> Nope! No time for hand loading any A-10 Warthogs, or working on Sidewinder
 TR> missiles.

If he did get within touching distance of a Sidewinder, it was most likely
a mockup sitting on a table in a class room.

 TR> And.........correct me if I'm wrong....but even the Air Force wouldn't allow
 TR> someone with a cast on one ankle to manually load an A-10 Warthog's `front
 TR> gun'. Not even someone who lived in Sheboygan!

But Sauer was special.

 RS>>> Even 30 years ago, the IR seeker head could lock in on human body
 RS>>> heat.


 JB>> A new tale emerges after all this time.  Outstanding work to get him to
 JB>> fabricate this one.


 TR> Even Sauer's staunchest supporters cannot possibly believe this latest wild
 TR> tale of his!

They will still support him, though.

 EH>> I almost fell out of my chair when I read that claim.


 TR> I bet even Klahn blinked in disbelief at this one! Utterly amazing!

Klahn will still challenge anyone who disbelieves Sauer.

Ed

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